... Gila race. It's just as fun for travel by car or motorcycle, or biking on your own, and offers a wealth of year-round birding options. The byway crosses six climatic zones and a broad swath of the Old West territory made famous by the daring exploits of Native Americans, Buffalo Soldiers, frontier families and scurrilous outlaws. You can't help but be touched by the spirits of those that have passed before ...

... the most different things in the world were Prada...next to the motorhome. So I made sure we got a pic of that! Then back on the road.

It is a LONG way between things here. After leaving Marfa, it was 74 miles to the next fuel. After that, it was a long way to El Paso. We fueled....and we el passo'd through. It's a much bigger city than I thought, with a population a little less than Charlotte. The border fence ...

"Are you going over the pass?!" "Surely you're not planning on going over Emory, it's over 8,200 feet high!" "If you're heading East do you realize this is the highest point you'll cross clear until the Atlantic Ocean?!" "Ya better have low enough gears!" These were the comments we were met with in Silver City as we pointed our tires eastward. You'd have thought that there were flesh eating zombies in the ...